Chapter 56: Your Majesty, you have a second account, right?
After Zhou destroyed Shang, in order to maintain its rule.
The Zhou Dynasty divided people into ten classes.
That is, the emperor, princes, ministers, scholars, servants, carriage drivers, slaves, officials, servants, and officials.
From top to bottom, it is the relationship between management and being managed.
The Zhou Dynasty also invented etiquette.
Etiquette is also the original core of Confucianism established by Confucius.
The education of rites and music is the foundation of governing a country.
Teach people the etiquette appropriate to their social status.
For example, if you are a slave, you will be taught to obey unconditionally from birth.
How to reflect the level?
The princes were enfeoffed by the emperor and were divided into five ranks: duke, marquis, earl, viscount and baron.
The princes would further grant fiefs to the lower classes, and the fiefs would be given to the ministers and nobles.
Ying Chengjiao was the Lord of Chang'an, and his title of Lord of Chang'an was a type of nobleman.
If a minister is given a title, he becomes a scholar.
The scholar went down.
Zao and Yu had no title and were commoners.
The people below Zao, Yu, Li, Liao, Pu and Tai were all slaves.
After this set of Zhou rituals was implemented, the world was divided.
The emperor does not need to rule the entire world. He only needs to divide the world among the princes and manage them.
The princes followed suit and divided their territories among the nobles and officials, and they only needed to manage the nobles and officials.
There was no need to divide the territories below the nobles, because the territories of the nobles were very small and they could manage them themselves, so there was no need to divide them.
The old Qin nobles, namely the class of ministers, divided up almost all of Qin's land.
This resulted in the Qin State's treasury being empty at the time, but the old Qin nobles were all extremely wealthy.
Shang Yang's system of granting land to the state took back all the fiefs of the old Qin nobles. This method only treated the symptoms but not the root cause.
How to solve the problem?
County system!
Shang Yang unified and integrated the territories of the old Qin nobles and divided them into counties.
The King of Qin sent people to govern the county, but the appointed people only had the right to govern but not the ownership, and the county still belonged to the King of Qin's territory.
This seems like a normal move now, but it was a major reform at the time.
Because Shang Yang had uprooted the privileged class of the nobles.
From then on, the Qin nobles and officials basically lost the soil for growing powerful.
Shang Yang offended the entire Qin State because of this.
After the death of Qin Xiaogong, who had protected him, Shang Yang was also burned to death by the raging anger of the old Qin nobles.
And now, what Li Si has to do is the same as what Shang Yang did back then.
The vassal states implemented the county system, and the ministers and nobles no longer existed.
The whole country has implemented the county system, and the princes no longer exist.
Among the ministers in the court, a considerable number should have become princes, and the rest also had the opportunity to become princes.
And Li Si's words made all these future princes GG.
This must be the instruction of Your Majesty!
Wang Wan, Wei Zhuang, Feng Quji and other ministers were all filled with anger.
As soon as they heard what Li Si said, they knew that this was arranged by the First Emperor, just like when King Xiaogong of Qin arranged Shang Yang to carry out reforms.
This was not the first time Shang Yang carried out reforms that he intended to rule the country tyrannically by using harsh punishments.
Shang Yang met Qin Xiaogong three times in total.
For the first time, Shang Yang proposed governing the country by imperial way.
That is the oldest way of governing the country in China, represented by Yao and Shun.
The core is to learn from nature, which is the later Huang-Lao school of thought.
The people of Qin each performed their duties and did their own things, and naturally the country was well governed.
The reason given by Qin Xiaogong was that it was too slow. I don’t accept it. You can go away.
The second time, Shang Yang proposed governing the country by the kingly way.
The most typical aspect of the kingly way is the ritual system, which is to re-regulate various ritual systems, requiring ministers not to overstep their authority and to follow the system of king-king, minister-minister, father-father, and son-son.
This time, King Xiao of Qin didn't even bother to give a reason. I don't want to do it, so you can leave.
The third time, Shang Yang proposed to rule the country by hegemony.
This time it is a reform, with the Legalist philosophy as the core. I make the laws and you must abide by them. If you break the law, no matter who you are or how famous you are, you must die.
At this time, Duke Xiao of Qin began to respect the wise and humble.
Sir, you said it well!
Please help me govern the State of Qin!
The most likely reason why Li Si said something today that was not in his own interest was that he was instructed by the First Emperor.
This is exactly the same as Qin Xiaogong's plan back then. Everyone in the court is a shrewd person. Who can't tell the difference?
Where is the eldest son?
All the ministers subconsciously looked towards the front row where Ying Fusu usually sat.
At this time , they needed the eldest son to help them charge into battle.
The eldest prince admires Zhou rites and is a staunch defender of the Zhou system. He will definitely speak out in rebuttal.
But what caught their eyes was not Ying Fusu, but Ying Chengjiao, a man with a handsome face.
Everyone looked at Ying Chengjiao, who had his eyes wide open and a bored look on his face, and complained.
Why is it this guy?
Where did the eldest son go?
Wang Wan, Wei Zhuang and Feng Quji exchanged glances and sat down one after another.
The ministers watched as the three leaders sat down, and they all sat down as well.
After a burst of dense noises, the only person standing in the court was Li Si.
No one agreed.
No one objected.
Fu Sheng was about to open his mouth when Chunyu Yue covered his mouth tightly.
Chunyu Yue whispered in Fu Sheng's ear again: "Don't seek death!"
After Fu Sheng signaled with his eyes that he would not say anything nonsense, Chunyu Yue let go of his hand, but he was still prepared to cover his mouth at any time.
Fu Sheng looked at Chunyu Yue who was facing a formidable enemy, and said aggrievedly: "Brother Chunyu asked me not to give advice today, and I will not give advice. I just wanted to sigh just now..."
"That's the best." Chunyu Yue breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
In the current situation, Li Si is obviously the mouthpiece pushed forward by the First Emperor, and the First Emperor's decisions are expressed through Li Si's mouth.
If anyone stood up to oppose Li Si at this moment, it might seem like just a party-political dispute, but in fact it would be an enemy of the First Emperor.
Chunyu Yue understood this principle, Feng Quji understood it, Wei Zhuang understood it, Wang Wan understood it, and all the ministers understood it.
At this moment, all the ministers were sitting except Li Si, who stood out.
Ying Chengjiao was speechless.
He didn't know how the debate on the feudal system and the county system written in the history books of his previous life came about.
But he knew that if Li Si's county system was established in this life, the Qin Dynasty would inevitably be plagued by the hidden danger of discord between the monarch and his subjects.
Originally, he wanted to put on a show with Ying Zheng.
Didn’t you say that my nephew is too young and that he must be enfeoffed?
That's fine. I'm old, so I was given the three plots of land in Qi Chuyan. I'll look after them for my nephews first. I'll return them when they grow up.
In this way, my royal brother will take care of the three regions of Zhao, Wei and Han that are close to Qin. You have also worked overtime in the past few years and can barely govern the world.
With this method of division, not only did the ministers not get any fiefdoms, but they also had to give half of the world to themselves.
Ying Chengjiao knew clearly in his heart that his image in front of everyone was as bad as it could not be. Everyone thought that he was incapable of suppressing the nobles of the six countries, and that chaos would surely break out.
But the First Emperor agreed. The ministers would not think that his agreement meant that he recognized Ying Chengjiao's ability.
Then the matter is very clear.
The fact that he was granted half of the Qin Kingdom was as unreasonable as Li Si saying something that was not in his own interest.
Your Majesty, you have a smurf account, right?
You just want to divide the land among your sons without giving us any share, right?
The ministers could not object unless they said, "Your Majesty, we also want a fiefdom."
But this is actually difficult to say. If you say it, it will be obvious that you are demanding a reward for your achievements.
